Fortescue Metals Group has risen into the ranks of the top 50 most valuable companies on the Australian share market thanks to soaring iron ore prices which have nearly quadrupled the miner's half-year profit and stoked investor demand.
Perth-based Cash Converters International has agreed to refund $10.8 million to customers and pay a $1.3 million fine after enforceable undertakings were accepted by the corporate watchdog.
Australia's largest payday lender, Perth-based Cash Converters International, has returned to the black and begun scaling back its troubled business in Britain.
Cash Converters International has secured a new $100 million loan with Fortress Investment Group to support the lender and second hand good retailer's future growth.
International communications agency King Content has opened an office in Perth, to meet what it says is an underserved market and client-driven demand.
Cash Converters International has announced a number of board changes, including the retirement of its chairman, and has commenced a review of the business as it responds to challenging market conditions.
Cash Converters International says it plans to raise $45 million to help terminate commissions to development agents on its rapidly growing personal loans business.
Online payday lender Loan Ranger is forging ahead with plans to rapidly expand the business and push into new lending sectors, after securing a multi-million funding injection from London investment bank Liberum Capital.
After 20 years in the stockbroking business, Simon Lyons stepped away from equities to enter the fixed income sector as a director of specialist group FIIG, offering an alternative for investors and an option to bank finance for business.
Cash Converters has entered into a joint venture with American pawn store giant EZCORP to launch the cash converters brand in Mexico and South America.
Cash Converters has acquired four franchised stores in Victoria and one in New South Wales for approximately $4 million dollars, inclusive of $1.8 million in assets, bringing the total number of corporate-owned stores in Australia to 61.
FEATURE: It has been a difficult year for many of WA's listed entities, but investors are backing the performance of most of the state's top executives.
Cash Converters has been hit with a second strike against its remuneration report but shareholders showed little interest in spilling the company's board at its annual general meeting in Perth today.
Payment solutions provider Emerchants has signed a three-month trial agreement with Perth-based Cash Converters International for the distribution of prepaid debit cards at the second-hand dealer's network of stores.
Mermaid Marine Australia managing director Jeff Weber has picked up just over 1.4 million shares at $3.05 each, or $4.5 million in total, through the exercise of incentive options.
Cash Converters International managing director Peter Cumins has today sold $2.57 million worth of shares in the company he and his brother Brian Cumins helped build.
Far away from the carnage in the iron ore sector, directors at select Western Australian companies in the gold, oil and gas and engineering sectors are being handsomely rewarded through the exercis
The value of Western Australian listed companies dipped by $18.7 billion over the month of May, mirroring the downward pressures on global financial markets, new research says.
Perth company Cash Converters International has suffered a sharp fall in its share price after a deal with its major shareholder was scrapped because of the impact of new consumer credit laws.
International pawn broker Cash Converters has signed a three-year $300,000 naming rights sponsorship deal with the state's under-18 junior rugby league club, the WA Reds.
Perth-based Cash Converters International says it is on track to meet its full-year profit forecast of $21 million after it today booked a 26.8 per cent increase in its half-year net profit.
Perth-headquartered Cash Converters International has expanded its footprint in the United Kingdom following the purchase of three stores for nearly $3 million.
A number of acquisitions over the 2008 financial year have driven Cash Converters International Ltd's net profit up 31 per cent to a record of over $15 million.
Perth-based Cash Converters International Ltd has moved further towards having mainly company-owned stores, rather than franchises, after agreeing to purchase eight Victorian outlets for $12.5 million.
